Ge-ortríwan, -treówan

According to the Old English Dictionary:

ge-ortríwan, -treówan

p. de. Take here ge-ortréwan in Dict., and add: I. to despair of. (1) with gen. Cf. I a:--Ne þú tó wáclíce geortreówe ǽniges gódes spemque fugato nes dolor adsit, Met. 5, 35. (2) with prep.:--Hé nǽfre ne geortreówe be Godes mildse de Dei misericordia nunquam desperare, R. Ben. 19, 2. Þá ðé ne lǽtað geortréwan (-treówan, ) be þýs andweardan lífe quae nec praesentis solamen temporis abesse patiantur, Bt. 10; S. 23, 7. Ne sceolon wé nǽfre geortrýwan be Godes mildheortnesse, Ll. Th. ii. 400, 1. (3) with clause:--Sé ðe tó lange wunað on ðǽm wlacum treówum, hé geortreówð ðæt hé ǽfre mæge on welme weorðan (calore desperato), Past. 447, 9. (4) absolute, to despair:--Hé geortriéwð in desperatione est, Past. 447, 11. I a. reflex. to cause (oneself) to despair. Cf. I. 1:--Þæt ðú þé ne geortrýwe nánes gódes, Bt. 6; F. 14, 35. II. to doubt, distrust. (1) to doubt the possibility of, be uncertain about something, (a) with acc.:--Þonne bið ús gesewen þæt ús ǽr gesǽd wæs, þeáh þe wé hit nú geortrýwan (-trúwian, v. l.), for ðý wé hit geseón ne magon, Wlfst. 3, 18. (aa) with acc. and clause in apposition:--Nis ꝥ tó geortrýwanne (-enne, v. l.), ꝥ on úre yldo ꝥ beón mihte nec diffidendum est nostra aetate fieri potuisse, Bd. 4, 19; Sch. 441, 7. (b) with clause:--Hé geortreóweð hweþer hí sóðe sýn, for þon þe hé nǽfre ne cúþe þurh gewisse áfandunge . . . hí geortreówdon hwæðer hí sóðe wǽron þe nǽron quia per experimentum non novit, veraciter esse diffidat . . . diffidunt an vera sint, Gr. D. 261, 18-22. (2) not to trust in something:--Sý þú nǽfre swá synful þæt þú ǽfre geortrýwe on Godes mildheortnysse, Angl. xii. 517, 26. (3) not to trust to a person (dat.) for doing something (clause):--Ne geortriéwe (-trúwige, Bos. 48, 45) ic ná Gode þæt hé ús ne mæge gescildan I trust to God that he can preserve us, Ors. 2, 5; S. 86, 4. ge-ortriwan

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